A reader points us to Anti-Japaneseism:
Anti-Japaneseism radicalized this argument by claiming that even communist revolution could not redeem Japan because the Japanese themselves possess an inherent “aggressive nature”. Proponents of this theory believe that the only way to redeem oneself from the “oppressor and criminal Japanese race” is to fight against all Japanese interests until the “Japanese” archipelago has been purged of anything Japanese…
The so-called “final solution” of Anti-Japaneseism is to wipe the nation called “Japan” from the face of the earth and exterminate the Japanese race. Because, as described in the above historical theory, Japan is inherently evil, the continued existence of Japanese people is incompatible with peace. East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front member Yoshimasa Kurosawa affirms that he is not opposed to any particular Japanese political regime, but to the existence of Japan itself.
These are Japanese who are advocating this. That said, it is amusing to see that it is made up of pacifistic, equalist, leftist communists who openly say communism wouldn’t fuck everyone over enough for them, so they are going with a strategy of total extermination of everyone. Now we are finally getting some honesty!
If you want to understand politics at an emotional level, from the perspective of r/K Theory, you can best do it by looking for what this site will refer to as the “overshoots” – the places where the r-strategist urges become so accidentally exaggerated as to be both maladaptive, and unbelievable. Because of an unprecedented run of free resources and lack of threat, we are seeing more overshoots than normal these days, they are grouping together, and their presentation is so extreme as to almost appear as parody. This offers us an unprecedented opportunity to both, better understand leftism, and demonstrate clearly and concisely to the broader populace the aberrant emotional urges underlying it.
Only when examining the overshoots, can you begin to grasp the depth to which the r-strategist will think and feel completely differently than you would. What the overshoot so obviously feels, the moderate feels as well. The moderate is merely better at masking it because the emotion is not totally overwhelming.
This method of examination works well because r and K are poles. On one side, the K-strategist only succeeds when their group succeeds. For this reason, evolution bred into the K-strategist a love of their group and a burning desire to see their group, as well as the individuals in it, succeed wildly. Indeed, the entirety of the martial arts exists because guys who mastered it over a lifetime devoted themselves to passing every trick they had down the line, in the hopes of helping other fighters attain greatness. You see it in other warrior disciplines as well, from the military, to the police, to fire/rescue, where old salts relish the opportunity to take young bucks under their wings, teach them all they know, and try to make the young bucks into better warriors than they themselves are. As they do this, they know without doubt, that someday the young bucks will do the same and the art will continue, stronger for their presence in it. The key mover of this strategy is a love for one’s fellow compatriots, and a joy at the sight of their success.
On the other side is the other pole, where an individual feels nothing but festering contempt and envy for those around them. This evolved in an environment where competition was futile, groups never formed, and you did best not when you defeated others but when others failed, without your intervention or risk. For this reason this desire to see others fail always carries a sense of impotent helplessness. These people do not dare, or pine to strive mightily in free and fair competition with their opposition. Rather they withdraw and fester, periodically grumbling about how everyone should give their possessions away and then commit suicide – for moral reasons of decency and concern for others, of course. It is a striking psychology when you meet it – almost beyond comprehension if you are a group-oriented K-strategist.
Here, in Anti-Japaneseism, you have Japanese saying that their own entire race must be wiped off the planet. They can’t do any good themselves. They can’t recognize any good in others. They can set no goals, nor can they strive for any aspiration to goodness. They have one overriding feeling as they look around them, and that is contempt for all of their fellow compatriots, and a burning desire to see them fail. They don’t even want to tear everyone down themselves, in free competition. Rather they want everyone else to destroy their own existence for them.
As you look at it, you can see all the other ideological desires of leftism through this envious, contempt-holding trait. The whites who demand every other white check their privilege and pay reparations to other races. The undesired, ugly feminists who tell pretty young women that love, children, and the embrace of family is to be eschewed for a cold life of office work. The cowardly and impotent Americans who decry our “empire,” as they tell our military to fight and die in meaningless wars in meaningless shitholes, under impossible ROEs, for people we don’t even know. The cowardly and weak disarmists who want the law abiding unarmed and helpless. The city-dwelling environmentalists who think forests should be off limits to humans. The sinecure global warmists who want everyone to eschew the luxuries in life for a Spartan existence. The poor communists who want rich businessmen stripped of their earned wealth and property. The impotent globalists who want their own powerful nation stripped of its autonomy in favor of a world body. The leftists who want to import millions of the most violent Islamists into their nations, despite the violent crimes from rape to murder that fellow citizens will have to endure. It even extends into the cuckservative elites, who hold real conservatives in contempt, as they seek to thwart their conservative, patriotic desires at every turn. The list goes on, but it is all rooted in this impotent, anti-social, backstabbing, envious, contempt-holding, r-strategist psychology. None dare compete. They merely go through life grumbling about unfairness and evil, and trying to trick others better than them into self-destruction.
One can only view politics intelligently and understand the urges which drive it by examining the most extreme poles. It is there that the motive forces driving everything become apparent in their extremism, and where you can finally get a window into just what your ideological counterpart is feeling. Absent that window, it is impossible for a group-loyal K-strategist to fully understand just how evil and contemptible the leftist r-strategists among us are. Only when you see an individual who has fully inverted all of the K-strategist urges so ridiculously can you finally grasp that the moderate leftist is driven by a complete inversion of your own goodness and love for your fellow countryman.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Our problem is not enough K-selecting Darwinian selection. The solution is Apocalypse, and it is coming. This will all be sorted for us, soon enough.
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A lot of r/K has been surprising but enlightening to me. I like to play online multiplayer strategy games for example, and once in awhile I will meet some moron who gets angry at the whole team for petty reasons and would literally rather kill a teammate or himself or both than see the team win. Until I read about r/K it never made much sense.
The point about some people being glad to teach others is fascinating as well. Morgan in TWD is a good example of that. I’ve always had that mindset as well, of wanting to learn from others and also deriving satisfaction from showing others how to do something. But the field of teaching itself doesn’t appeal much to me, and most people I meet don’t seem interested “to take young bucks under their wings” and teach them, or even to trade value-for-value. I wonder if a person is more r-selected if, when you do a favor for them, they don’t do one back for you later?
I think that would be a key trait. If it would enhance the cohesion within a group and the competitiveness of the group, I see it as K. If it degrades group cohesion and competitiveness, I see it as r.
Videogames probably are a mix of r and K’s. r’s show up for the dopamine and fun, K’s for the group competitiveness.
Ayn Rand called what you are seeing in the extreme r-selected bastards “hatred of the good, because it is good.”
Isn’t it ironic that the adherents of these leftist ideologies that supposedly claim to be all about the welfare of their fellow man, in actuality hold their fellow men in absolute contempt? The only reason they ever succeed is because sometimes they manage to snooker their betters into believing their view is the moral one, and in so doing get their betters to destroy themselves. The evil bastards of the left could never defeat us directly.
Dead on.
This is also further evidence of the link between leftism and narcissism. Both have the root desire to see others fail.
Exactly. Plus, I think the narcissist is quickly killed in K-selection, as the group would purge them immediately. But in r-selection, what do we see rise to the top of the pile, everywhere?
I find this to be one of the most fascinating blogs on the net — thanks for explaining what I see and hear from “cuckservatives,” as you put it. But why, please tell, do you say an upcoming apocalypse is the coming solution to the r-K polarity? Could it be that r and K — forgive me for this reference! — are something like antithesis and thesis, and that we vary between these polls, momentarily reaching a happy midpoint, but most of the time either a bit too r or a bit too K?
Obviously, we’re far, far toward the r pole, now. So do you mean to say that the apocalypse occurs when the pendulum swings back toward K? A hard swing, perhaps?
People need a certain amount of stress to function right. As you remove stress, the brain structures that adapt to cope with it atrophy, and you end up with an individual who needs a very high degree of perfection in their life, or they begin a total freak out.
There was a study in animals, where minor shocks to their footpads freaked them out, but only for a little bit. After a while they accepted the shocks as normal, and went on as if they weren’t there. Life’s turmoils are like that. You adapt to them, and if they aren’t there, great, but if they are, you cope.
The problem today is the left is not adapted to any amount of stress. Even they acknowledge it, demanding we not engage in “micro-aggressions” (their term) – aggressions so small they are undetectable at normal levels of examination, and only become apparent if you look extra closely at the micro-scale. If the left were adapted to seeing mega-aggressions every day, they would be pleased to only see micro-aggressions, and would ignore them entirely.
The coming financial turmoil is what will acclimate everyone to daily mega-aggression. Once it passes, we will enter a 1950’s era where the nation will be united, bitching at insignificant minutia will be discouraged, and the atmosphere will again be conducive to a nation ascending toward greatness. Along with that, will come all of the other traits of K-selected populations – fitting in with the masses, instead of demanding the masses accommodate you, protectiveness toward children, self-sufficiency and freedom, and a lack of entitlement and envy.
Do you have any analysis of the German ultra(?)-leftists who regularly demonstrate for Bomber Harris to return and finish the job?
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I just wanted to express appreciation for your work. You are so right. Once you start seeing the world in terms of r & K you can’t unsee it.
I have been arguing with rabbits a lot lately about the wisdom of allowing tens of thousands of potentially dangerous, possibly hostile & definitely incompatible Muslim refugees into America.
It’s eye-opening to watch your principles play out. And see how emotionally they fight for something that any rational, self-interested American would categorize as of dubious, marginal benefit with an enormous and concrete risk.
Your analysis is spot on. In conversations with them, I can see in real-time that the rabbits instinctively WANT to bring foreign, dangerous & unproductive people into the nation. Not in spite of the damage they can do, but precisely because of it.
Your analysis also predicts how they will act when they are asked to give reasons why a rational, self-interested American should agree with them: rage & emotionally charged out-grouping. It really has been a textbook example of your concepts in the real world.
Thank you for providing such a powerful key to understanding how these people think, and how to deal with them.
Thank you for the kind words. As you can imagine, as this spreads and we turn the tide back, I get something out of it too. I was not looking forward to living in a dystopian novel like Brave New World myself. I’m hopeful between Trump and rise of r/K we will see a new page turned soon.